2.36 - BACK TO THE FUTURE PART III (1990) & Homage

The classic Zemeckis trilogy concludes, with talk of the many movie references in the film and discussion of what makes a parody a parody, as well as Another of Rob’s Theories about how cinema works.

This Week’s Watching
THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE (2015—): Frank Spotnitz, Alexa Davalos, Rupert Evans
DAREDEVIL (2015—): Drew Goddard, Charlie Cox, Deborah Ann Woll
APOLLO 13 (1995): Ron Howard, Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon

Recommendations
UNFORGIVEN (1992): Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman
INLAND EMPIRE (2006): David Lynch, Laura Dern, Jeremy Irons
PHILADELPHIA (1993): Jonathan Demme, Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (1960): John Sturges, Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach

Footnotes The GIF of Pauline Johnson on the train ledge in 1929 is here (courtesy of an interesting Twitter account). This is an interesting article, which covers many of the references we discuss. This is a piece espousing an opinion which you may think, after listening to this episode, may not be far from ours! The authors Rob mentions are Jules Verne and, unwittingly(!), H.G. Wells. And, finally, here’s a description of the TV series that sort of follows on from the franchise (but not quite).